World's Largest Liner Docks Without Tug Amid Strike
Queen Elizabeth arrives at New York from Southampton and Cherbourg with tug crews on strike. Capt Geoffrey Thrippleton Marr of Cunard handles a risky solo berthing, swinging the 1031-foot liner using the pier as a fulcrum and two lines lashed to the dock without a scratch.
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NEW York
Queen Elizabeth
Empire State Building
New York Harbor
Southampton
Cherbourg
Geoffrey Thrippleton Marr
Cunard Lines
Marr
Hudson River
French China ties sour as Gaullist diplomacy falters
Paris reports rising friction between France and Communist China over the Gaullist policy of recognizing Peking. Incidents include Chinese student protests outside the Soviet Embassy in Paris and insults at the French Embassy in Peking, with a French diplomat and wife briefly detained during a demonstration. Huang Chen, the Chinese ambassador, was summoned as Paris said the matter was settled.
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Paris
France
China
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Peking
Huang Chen
Foreign Ministry
Governments Losing Efficiency Samuels Says
Howard J. Samuels of Canandaigua told a Syracuse junior chamber of commerce meeting that state and local governments are less efficient despite more funds and personnel. He blamed poor organization and people of insufficient talent for the decline.
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Syracuse
UPI
Howard J. Samuels
Canandaigua
Samuels
Chamber of Commerce
Striking Tug Crews Reject Sewage Plea
NEW YORK police dispatches report that Captain Joseph O'Hare, president of Tugboat Local 333, rejected a request for a single tug to haul accumulating raw sewage to sea for dumping. The Interstate Sanitation Commission warned that without tugs the five metropolitan sewage plants cannot dispose of sludge, threatening dumping into the harbor.
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New York
Interstate Sanitation Commission
Joseph O'Hare
Ugboat
Commission
Di-Gel extra layer promises faster heartburn relief
Di-Gel markets a two layer antacid with an extra ingredient claimed to untrap painful gas causing heartburn and bloating. The product line includes minty tablets or liquid from Plough, Inc. Ade.
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Plough, Inc
Macy's Vetos Plans For Another Store
Bridgeport Mayor Hugh Curran said Macy's declined a Bridgeport store after a computer analysis showed it would steal business from Macy's New Haven by over 1 million dollars annually and from the White Plains New York store by more than 500 thousand dollars.
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Bridgeport, Conn
Macy’s
Bridgeport
Hugh C.curran
Curran
New Haven
White Plains
N. Y
Albany Man Given 5 Month Sentence For DUI Crash
William McLaughlin, 27, of Albany, was sentenced yesterday by Williamstown District Court to five months in jail on each count from a DUI related incident last month at Brodie Mountain Ski Area near Williamstown. He faced charges including leaving the scene of a personal injury accident driving while intoxicated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and driving a motor vehicle without authority. The five month terms run concurrently.
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William McLaughlin
Albany
Brodie Mountains
Williamstown
Mass
McLaughling
Powell to Publish Sermon Collection by Adam Powell
New York AP reports Rep. Adam Clayton Powell plans a spring publication of his gospel interpretation in book form. Simon & Schuster says a hard cover collection of sermons from his Abyssinian Reverend Church will be issued May 1 by the Tri dent division under the title Keep the Faith, Baby, echoing his long playing record.
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New York
Adam Clayton Powell
D-N.y
Leon Shimkin
Simon & Schuster
Harlem
Fis
Trident
Powell
Romney Proposes Michigan Budget and Tax Plan for 1967
Michigan Governor George Romney urged a general fund budget of 1.18 billion dollars for 1967-68, a historic billion-dollar-plus plan. He also unveiled a tax package including a 244 percent personal income tax, a 1 percent corporate levy, an 8 percent tax on financial institutions, a three-cent cigarette tax rise, and proposed $88 million in tax cuts.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
George Romney
Romney
U.S. Names Four Envoys to United Nations Posts
The United States swore in four ambassadors to the U.N. to assist Arthur Goldberg, replacing Nabrit and appointing Buffum, Pedersen, Goldschmidt, and Finger in senior roles. Eugenie Andersen remains U.S. representative on the U.N. Trusteeship Council.
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United Nations
N.Y
United States
Arthur J. Goldberg
U.S
Goldberg
William B. Buffum
James M. Nabrit Jr
Nabrit
Howard University
Buffum
International Organization
Richard F. Pedersen
Security Council
Pedersen
Arthur Goldschmidt
Economic and Social Council
James Roosevelt
U.N
Seymour M. Finger
Finger
Edward J. Gaumond
Eugenie M. Andersen
Alpine Club seeks climbers for Yukon centennial peaks
The Alpine Club of Canada invites adventurers to scale unmapped Yukon mountains as a centennial project. One national group and 13 four man teams will be chosen. The peaks, up to 12 500 feet high, will be named for Canada’s 10 provinces and two territories.
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Vancouver
B.C
Alpine Club of Canada
Yukon Territory
Canada
Soviet scientists unveil 250000x electron microscope
Moscow reports that Soviet researchers designed an electron microscope capable of magnifying 250000 times and revealing gene and life process structures in micro organisms. Tass says the device uses a gas filled chamber.
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Moscow
Tass
U S Plans Grain Aid To India In Hunger Crisis
President Johnson informed Congress of an immediate allocation of two million tons of grain valued near 150 million dollars to India's emergency food needs. He urged support for a joint international effort and outlined conditions for aid while dispatching Restow to eight industrialized nations to secure further help.
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U.S
India
Washington
Johnson
Congress
United States
Bihar
Uttar Pradesh
White House
State of the Union
Eugene B. Restow
Exiled Cubans Plan Assembly to Seek OAS Seat
Cuban exiles in the United States call a convention to choose a representation for international recognition. Leaders abandon a government in exile plan and focus on securing a voice in the OAS and at inter American conferences. Dr. Enrique Huertas leads the movement, noting elections among thousands of exiles would be impractical. Virgilio Sanchez Ocejo says other countries are asked to harbor an exile government, which the United States has rejected.
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Miami
Fla
Fidel Castro
OAS
Enrique Huertas
Francisco Alabau
Trelles
Supreme Court
United States
Latin America
Spain
Huertas
Virgilio Sanchez Ocejo
Bourguiba Plans Visit to U.S. in June
Tunis Tunisia June 3 1964 UPI reports President Habib Bourguiba will fly to the United States for a two week trip with talks planned with President Johnson. He also intends to visit the Canadian World's Fair after the U S trip.
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Tunis
UPI
Habib Bourguiba
Tunisia
United States
Johnson
Bourguiba
U.S
Abortion Law Revision Sparks Cold War of Ideals
In Albany the Conservative party and the Roman Catholic Church oppose changes to New York's 84 year old abortion law. Fordham law official Charles Rice argues against reform while Church leaders and legal groups urge therapeutic abortions for cases of health risk, rape or incest, or unwed underage pregnancy. Debates center on when life begins and access to safe procedures.
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Albany
UPI
Charles E. Rice
Fordham Law School
State Council of Churches
Employees At Arsenal Ratify Pact In North Eastern NY
Water v ity Arsenal Lodge 2382 AFGE votes 740 to 60 to ratify a new union management rotation contract. The agreement, first DoD AFGE contract in the region, includes joint committee equal representation and vacation seniority rules, with FMCS participation for the first time. The lodge, formed 1963, covers about 2,900 of 3,800 workers under AFGE 2nd District.
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Watervitel Arsenal Lodge
American Federation of Government Employes
Avge Lival
Paw J. Hayes
Lodge
Fred J. Clas
Arsenal
Department of Army-Afge
New York
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Paul Burch
Ann Mahar
John Stiffen
Edward LeMay
Paul Hasselgren
John E
Tell Me Why English Language Origins Riddle Feature
The piece explains the origins of English from five centuries of invasion and influence, noting Old Middle and Modern English periods, Norse and Norman French impacts, and the 1066 Conquest, with puzzles and a prize for readers. Barbara Bracennier of Slave Lake Alberta is named as today’s winner.
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Wuther
Beverly Spurgeon
Phoelx
Ariz
North Sea
England
Britain
William the Conqueror
Barbara Bracennier
Slave Lake
Alberta
Defendant In Summation Offers To Pay Jurors
A 38 year old defendant in an extortion and assault case fired his lawyer and insulted the judge during trial. He began his summation by offering to pay jurors up to 30 a day for hardships caused by the long trial, and urged them not to be fooled by the prosecutor. The judge interrupted at times but ordered him to continue.
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NEW York
Yife
Harold Konigsberg
Asst. Dist. Atty
Frank J. Rogers
Supreme Court
Abraham J. Gellinoff
O J
Konigsberg
Frances Kahn
Kahn
Joe Louis
Cellinett
Gellinoff
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